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nvim-telescope
telescope.nvim
Lua2021–2025
nvim-telescope / telescope.nvim

telescope.nvim

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23Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
19.9KGitHub stars
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Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

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Observed mentions: 2021-04-15 04:38:58 UTC to 2025-02-26 09:05:15 UTC.

02468102021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I use a lot of them, many specific to my work, but here are some of the ones that I think will most improve the quality of life for most developers. - For a plug-in manager I user packer - For file/text search I recommend telescope (https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim) - Copilot (https://github.com/github/copilot.vim) - Nerd tree for file browsing (https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree) - commentary for commenting (https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary) - ALE for linting (https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale) - Mason for installing LSP servers (https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim) Once you have the proper tooling in place you can do pretty much everything in vim that you are doing in vs code or intelliJ. I've just started using it for most of my dev work recently and I have found ThePrimeagen's youtube videos on vim
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to be a great resource. Series on using vim as you editor (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm323Lc7iSW_wuxqmKx_x...) Introduction to setting up your vim configuration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2QJYq4IX6M&t=512s) I recommend giving it a try. The process of learning it all was fun, and as you may have heard you can eventually get pretty quick using Vim.
In Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
> I’m finding myself doubting the amount of time I’m dedicating to configuring/practicing vim If it's not fun, then it's probably not worth it. It really depends on what VIM can do to improve your current workflow. So, you may need to drop the VSCode mindset while you start using VIM. > but now that I’m trying to navigate medium/large projects, I actually have trouble navigating large projects in VSCode. The buffer, tab, window model that Vim uses makes more sense to me (but it's unique to VIM afaik, so it may be jarring at first). Combine that with a fuzzy finder[1] and it allows: - rip-grep to search for files with text / file names - Searching through currently currently opened buffers Whenever I have to use VSCode (mainly for the live share feature, I find myself pretty lost with VSCode's tab based interface (I usually end up with l
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ike 20 tabs cluttering my workspace, and tabs are local to a split, which is jarring for me). > the vim endgame looks like It never _really_ ends. Some VIM features that I miss when I use another editor are: - Really nice integration with terminal commands. One thing that I do very often is copy the name of the current file: `!echo % | xclip -sel clip` so I can use the filename as an argument in a terminal split (running tests for example) - Filters (`:help !`) so I can pass parts of a file in to a program that accepts standard input. Example: `'<,'>!jq` to prettify bits of JSON. - Global commands and macros. VSCode vim supports them, but I've noticed that they can run pretty slowly. - The buffer, tab, window, model (probably the biggest one I miss when I start using VSCode) For LSP support, I've tried to migrate to neovim's native LSP tools, but I still find COC to be a lot more intuitive. You should feel right at home with it since a lot of the plugins are similar to their VSCode counterpart. If you'd like a really general and guided tour of VIM, I'd recommend picking up Practial Vim[2] It really helped me understand the workflow a bit more. Approaching VIM with the mindset of another editor wont give you all the benefits of using VIM. Though, if the workflow doesn't click, then that's not a big deal. You can always go back to VSCode. [1] https://github.com/Shougo/denite.nvim (many people use Telescope: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim) [2] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Vim-Thought-Pragmatic-Progr...
In Ask HN: Is switching from VSCode to Vim worth it?

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